pintar
Meanings
Verb
1. to paint (to apply paint to) (transitive)
2. to paint (to create an image with paints) (transitive, intransitive)
3. to draw (to depict with lines) (transitive)
4. to depict, portray (as something) (transitive)
5. to look, to seem (intransitive, of a situation)
6. to have to do somewhere (colloquial, chiefly in the negative)
7. to make up one's face (reflexive)
8. to put lipstick on oneself (reflexive)
9. to color one's hair (reflexive)
10. to want (reflexive, Argentina)
Examples247
La cosa no pinta bien.
Things aren't looking good.
Yo aquí no pinto nada.
I don't fit in here at all.
Ellas me pintaron como el malo.
They painted me as the villain.
Tom no ha pintado por años.
Tom hasn't painted for years.
Tom se puso a pintar.
Tom painted.
También me gusta pintar.
I also like painting.